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Pankaj reports that starting with commitad428cdb52"dax: Check the end of the block-device capacity with dax_direct_access()" device-mapper no longer allows dax operation. This results from the stricter checks in __bdev_dax_supported() that validate that the start and end of a block-device map to the same 'pagemap' instance. Teach the dax-core and device-mapper to validate the 'pagemap' on a per-target basis. This is accomplished by refactoring the bdev_dax_supported() internals into generic_fsdax_supported() which takes a sector range to validate. Consequently generic_fsdax_supported() is suitable to be used in a device-mapper ->iterate_devices() callback. A new ->dax_supported() operation is added to allow composite devices to split and route upper-level bdev_dax_supported() requests. Fixes:ad428cdb52("dax: Check the end of the block-device...") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.